Garter.



A. P. COOLBROTH.

GARTER.

APPLICATION FlLED IUNE 3.1914.

Patented Oct. 12, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented one. 12, 1915.

Application filed June 3, 1914. Serial No. 842,768.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, Aueus'ra PIOKERING Cooneno'rn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, county of MiddleseX, Commonwealth of lvlassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Garters, of which the following is aspecification. p

This invention relates to hose supporters and particularly to an inelastic garter. The inelastic garter presentsnumerous features of desirability over the usualelastic type, of which the freedom from the harmful binding effect and resultant restriction of circulation produced bythe elastic webbing is characteristic. The principal difliculty and chief objection to such inelastic garters as have been made, consists in the fact that it has been found practically impossible to get the inelastic webbing to conform, to the varying surface contour presented by the limb muscles in their flexing move- This has been due chiefly to the fact that the webs have been improperly disposed particularly at their points of juncture with each other. Another serious objection to such garters as have been devised lay in the fact 'that'in usethe' webs tended to turn inward and assume a hori zontal position relative tothe limbso as to present to the limb a cutting edge which chafed and was exceedingly annoying and uncomfortable, to the wearer. To the end therefore of producing an inelastic garter which will be free from these objections and atthe same time will be inexpensive, s

liable and durable, l have devised my pres ent invention inwhichl provide for a conformation of the webbing to the varying limb contour as presented in the different flexing movements of the limb that is to say the downward pull of the hose secures a parallelism at the sides of the garter and effects a flat drawing in of the sides against the limb. Thiscausesthewebs to have a strong sustaining effect, due to the lateral or sidewise pressure which they exert and an increased frictional hold owing to the fact that they are held flat and in uniform contact with the limb as distinguished from the uneven strain presented. in a round or semi-round garter. In addition the webs are so adjusted relatively as to assume constantly vertical parallel position relative the body portion of in Fig. 3. The otherend 10 of the strip is passed over the cross bar 8 of the slide and.

features whichwill appear more fully hereinafter are secured by my present invention, the construction and principle of which will be more fully described in the specification which follows. In the-drawings forming a part of that specification I have shown as an illustrative embodiment a form of garter which not only clearly illustrates the principles involved, but is in -itself a form the requirements of manufacture and is sat. isfactory in practice.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a garter in accordance with my invention and Figs. 2, 3', and l are transverse sections on the lines 2+2, 3-3, and H respectively of Fig. 1.

' The garter thus illustrated consists of two lateral webs I and 2, two back juncture web pieces 3, two front juncture web pieces 4 and a suspension tab 5 carried by the webs 4. All the webs are by preference proven to be well adapted to made of inelastic material which can be I strip and one web is looped through aslot ted attaching and guiding member 6 carried by bar 8 of anadjustable slide 9 and. sewed to the strip as indicated through the slots defined by said cross bar and the sides of and extends as a free engaging end 11 back toward the adjacent rear webbing piece 3.

Each end 11 'of the strips 1 and 2 is attached: to its webbing piece 3 by turning its free end 11 under and sewing to the similarly turned end 3 of the piece 3. Each piece?) therefore backs a strip 11 for a part of its length and is secured at its opposite end to said strip as shown in Fig. 2 by turning its endrll through the Web end 11.

I The two web pieces 8 are brought together at an upwardly pointing angle of about ninety degrees so as to present a smoothfiat surface to the limb and secure a vertical disposition ofthe strips 1 and 2 relative to T the limb. This insures that the strips 1 and 2 and the Webs 3 will lie smooth and liat and the slide as seen in Fig. 3

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one of the web pieces 4-. One end 7 of the lateral strip'is looped over the cross devices 15.

secured to each other in any desired manner, as by stitching or otherwise.

The front web pieces 4: are of two-ply thickness. The guide member 6 is secured to one of the front web pieces 4: by aloop 12 passing through the slot of the guide member and stitched between the inturned ends 13 of the two-ply web t. 1 The plies near their opposite ends 14: arejturned under and spaced slightly apart so as to open recess in which is secured the suspens1on tab 5 which carr1es the hose engaging One of the web'pieces 4: has stitched to it a loop end 16 in which isengaged an eye memberl? adapted to engage the cooperating hook member 18 carried by one of the lateral strips 2. The front web pieces i are brought, together so as to bisect theexterior angle and lie ata downwardly pointing angle of substantially ninety degrees. a e The arrangement ofthe front and back web pieces is suchthat the downward pull of the hose'is distributed over the whole area of the garter instead of being upon the two side strips 1 and 2 which would thus be drawn in tightly against the limb and tend to restrict the circulation.

Various'modifications in the form and device may obviously. be resorted to within the limits of the appended claims. i 7

What I'therefore claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A garter of the class described comprising a hose engaging member and apair'of limb encircling members attached to said Copies of this patent may be obtained for them to lie paral' define with the corresponding opposite web piece 4: an

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disposedfront and rear polnts of 1uncture,

vertical edgewise hose engaging pmember at an right angle in the rear.

2. A garter of the class described comangle and in the front at a downwardly pointed angle. i. A "arter of webs of material and consisting of lateral sections having oppositely disposed points of junctureat angles ofsubstantially '90" or greaterand a hose engaging member dependingly attached to said garter-at one of said pointsof juncture whereby the portions-of said lateral sections intermediate of their ends are brought into substant1ally obtuse angle "and meeting each other at substantially a prising a pair of limb encircling members a of the class described formed vertical edgewise position relative to the limbi v V v 5. 'A garter of the class described formed of webs of nonelastic material and consistof lateral sections-having oppositely in the form of attached. web pieces, and a hose engaging member 'dependingly attached to the front web pieces whereby the portionsof said lateral sectionsbetween their ends are position relative to the limb, and means for adjusting the effective encircling capacity of said lateral sections.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

- Y AUGUSTA PICKERING GOOLBROTH. Witnesses:

VICTORIA LOWDEN,

Y Acnns V. OCONNELL.

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